Upcoming Events
Monday, January 27, 2020 - 5:30pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
There will be a reception directly following this event. Please RSVP: Duke GSF Facebook Event Page or julie.wynmor@duke.eduClare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory at the Department of Gender Studies, LSE. Her areas of research specialism are feminist theory and sexuality studies, and in... Read More »
Monday, January 27, 2020 - 6:00pm
East Duke Parlors
The Graduate Scholars Colloquium provides a site of vibrant intellectual exchange for graduate students across the disciplines engaged in the study of gender or in feminist and queer analysis. The colloquium is designed to address the work of its participants, and by so doing, to explore emerging... Read More »
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 4:30pm
East Duke Parlors
Nicholas L. Syrett is Professor and Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. He is a co-editor of Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present (NYU, 2015) and the author of three books: The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (UNC, 2009),... Read More »
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 1:30pm
East Duke Parlors
Kwame Edwin Otu is currently an Assistant Professor of African-American and African Studies at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He earned his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse University. Kwame's research, which draws... Read More »
Friday, February 7, 2020 - 1:00pm
East Duke 201 - Nelson Music Room
Co sponsored by Institute for Critical Theory and Literature's Marxism and Society Group. Three essays can by downloaded at sites.duke.edu/criticaltheory
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:30pm
East Duke Parlors
This presentation considers El Registro de Mujeres Públicas, a photographic archive from 19th C. Mexico City to think about the biopolitical history of sexual labor and the intimate affects that escape the archive. Juana María Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and... Read More »
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 7:00pm
Page Auditorium
Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison is a leading voice for science, social responsibility and education. Now, she's paving the way for human interstellar travel.Audacious and pioneering, polymath Dr. Mae Jemison is at the forefront of integrating the physical and social sciences with art and culture to solve... Read More »
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 4:30pm
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Professor Sharma will draw from her decade of ethnographic research on Black residents that frames her forthcoming book, Hawai'i is my Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke University Press). In this talk, she analyzes how centering the Islands' Black residents interrupts Asian-... Read More »
Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 2:00pm
Rubenstein Arts Center, Ruby Lounge
Join us for a keynote, reading, and Q&A with esteemed Bangladeshi-Australian poet and novelist Fariha Róisín. Fariha writes on Muslim identity, race, self-care, pop culture, and film (as well as queerness and how that intersects with being a femme of color navigating a white world), and has... Read More »
Saturday, March 21, 2020 (All day)
Penn Pavilion
The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University hosts an annual Feminist Theory Workshop-a two-day event featuring keynote lectures and working seminars. The workshops are held in March at Duke University.The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW), which began in 2007, are... Read More »